Grey smoke weaves

heavenward 

no succour for the soul

as flame licks, ascending 

no desire for judgement 

no awareness of heat

or holy cleansing   

 

flame does not know

of pain or purifications 

of devoutness or death 

of heresies or belief 

just that, what was

is now what is

Consumed

 

Consumed new of god

of succour for the soul

of devoutness and belief 

Consumed new of asphyxiation

of heat and of flame

and of pain and of death;

And of the word, heretic

 

For consumed did not claim

Of succour